Kraft's Automatics Darts

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I was thinking it could have been made into a game to operate, as it was too flat not being able to win anything.
If the bullseye had been made into a single winning cup, the ball disappearing inside could trigger a microswitch and with relay, penny tube and solenoid with say 4 x coin thicker slide, drop a jackpot.
I think arcade punters would play for that and it makes it far more interesting. Good job on the restoration by the way!
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This has had an interesting history and travelled miles.
I think found in Essex around 1990 then sold to a German collection, then got sold to an American collection and ended up in an auction there, I think in Florida. It was bought at auction by a British dealer and I purchased it from him when it arrived back in the UK for £800 I think. I was going to convert it on the lines of what moonriver suggested, but never got round to it and slung it in one of EH auctions, made £200.
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Well I thought it was interesting. 🙁
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You pays your money, you takes your chances. :didact:

It was quite interesting, Daveslot.

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daveslot wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 4:19 pm Well I thought it was interesting. 🙁
It's the reality that the last bargain we bought could easily be a disaster when we come to sell it, Dave.
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Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned the money! I meant the amount of miles it clocked up was interesting. :!?!:
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No don't think about the money. Sometimes it works the other way round. It's all part of the challenge, and as you say, some machines have travelled the World.
I found two Dennison working models on a road trip that were way out in the Midwestern US in a little town, completely lost out in the sticks, that were originally made just a few miles from me in Leeds.
So much of our stuff was shipped out there in containers almost as fillers in the '80/'90s.
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